Job Title: Project Manager - Data Projects
Locations: London and Berlin
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About Role:We’re looking for an agile Project Manager to join the SN Data – Data Competence Centre within Springer Nature Operations. You would be joining a transformation programme to drive sustained change in how Springer Nature understands, manages, and uses its data: building up data capabilities to create a foundation, adding value to cross-organisation initiatives and data-driven transformation.
The role will be based in London (UK) or Berlin (Germany), reporting to the Programme Manager for Enterprise Data & Business Reporting. There will be travel at times with colleagues in many of our global offices.
We are an equal opportunity employer. We work in a relaxed and friendly environment, offering the flexibility to work from home three days a week.
About You:
You are an organised, problem-solver who knits teams together around a shared goal. You actively seek decisions and demonstrate the learning mindset that will help the team you’re on adapt to ever-changing situations.
Experience
You will have:
An established track record of planning, delivering, and monitoring successful projects using the Scrum framework (or similar agile processes) with small, cross-functional project teams as a Project Manager, Scrum Master, Delivery Lead, or equivalent.
Experience working with stakeholders and teams to define achievable backlogs of work from ideas
A strong understanding of servant leadership and driving delivery in agile and hybrid environments
A list of improvements that you’ve been responsible for in the way your current team or project works
Past experience in helping teams find focus and know where to start solving complex problems
A broad understanding of agile methodologies or frameworks, and other industry-standard project management tools
Experience facilitating teams in gathering and presenting information to clearly communicate the technical context to non-technical stakeholders
Good communication, stakeholder management, negotiation and conflict resolution skills
Key tasks
Run effective team ceremonies – refinement, planning, stand-ups, showcases and retrospectives, for example.
Foster a culture of collaboration, ownership and empowerment, bringing people together with a clear purpose.
Work with teams and stakeholders to define project-level OKRs, plan, collaborate, and manage work against them.
Raise and address risks and issues in the project and work with the appropriate teams or individuals to mitigate them
Act as the facilitator to a team or working group, scheduling and supporting regular cadences of meetings or workshops that drive work forward
Mentoring the team on agile and lean principles & practices if needed
Management of stakeholders, inter-team relationships, and dependencies with the Programme Manager as appropriate
Providing support and input to all aspects of the project – from business case through to delivering value for the business and its customers
Create artefacts that communicate, amongst other things, roadmaps, progress, risk, and opportunities at an appropriate level
You’ll sustain our culture of continuous improvement, ensuring that business outcomes are delivered frequently, engineering and data quality are considered in their context and issues are addressed quickly
Top Skills
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